Tom Kawczynski - Off the Record

I am often amused by irony.  For as much as people who are on the political right like to complain about learned helplessness and dependency on systems as things that people should overcome, their attitude when it comes to facing the truth about political parties can be downright sheepish.

It is one thing for a person to stand loyally by a party that they feel accurately represents the vast majority of their views.  I get that.  But, to argue that one needs to remain with a party because the primary motivation is fear of what might succeed should the inadequate party fail in its efforts strikes me as a sorry way to be involved in politics.  I know I am not the only one who finds the idea of defensive voting loathsome.

We live in a republic where we can vote.  We, through no force greater than ourselves, have the ability to remove and replace any official we choose through voting.  We choose who is and is not viable.  We can ignore the media, and we can ignore the parties.  We can remember that America was not built by people who said what was sensible, but rather by people who said what was just.

If your goal is to slow the expansion of government, then that is all you can hope to succeed in achieving.  But if your goal is to create something different, then you must realize that you will have to think and act differently.  You need to aspire to more and ask yourself, what do you want?

I ask myself these questions too.  I am willing to lose for what is right rather than win for what is wrong.  But, I will not be silent, and I think neither should any of you.